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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 6
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Israel shall be destroyed for her idolatry—A remnant only shall be saved and scattered.
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And</span> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/6/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 20: 46; Ezek. 35: 2 (1-15).">face</a> toward the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/6/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 36: 1 (1-7).">mountains</a> of Israel, and prophesy against them,
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And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, <i>even</i> I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
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And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain <i>men</i> before your idols.
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And I will lay the dead <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/6/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 141: 7.">carcases</a> of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
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In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
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And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/6/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Knowledge about.">know</a> that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Yet will I leave a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/6/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Remnant of.">remnant</a>, that ye may have <i>some</i> that shall <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/6/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 44: 28; Ezek. 7: 16.">escape</a> the sword among the nations, when ye shall be <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/6/8c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">scattered</a> through the countries.
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And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/6/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 23: 30.">whoring</a> after their idols: and they shall <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/6/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Repentance.">lothe</a> themselves for the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/6/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 36: 31.">evils</a> which they have committed in all their abominations.
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And they shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>and that</i> I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
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&#182; Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel!  for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
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Then shall ye know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, when their slain <i>men</i> shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/6/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">idols</a>.
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So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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